Method of packing floor-sweeping compounds



G. W. SMITH METHOD OF PACKING FLOOR SWEEPING COMPOUNDS Filed'June 1, 1 925 I Patented Feb. 10, 1925.vv

UNITED STATE s PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. SMITH, OF BUFFALO, NEW. YORK, ASSIGNOB TO PEERLESS SAL-O-WELL 00., INC., 01 BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

METHOD OF PACKING FLOOR-SWEEPING COMPOUNDS.

Application filed June 1,

To all whom. it may concern."

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of 5 New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Methods of Packing Floor- SweepingCompounds, of which the following is a specification.

As is well known, such sweeping compounds are used in stores, schools and other places to absorb dust and prevent its flying into the air and settling upon goods, furniture, &c. Among other ingredients they contain sawdust, sand and oil, preferably parailine oil, which latter constitutes a large percentage of the mixture. To"obtain the best results, the oil should remain thoroughly mixed with the sawdust" and'other ingredic-nts.

Heretofore, such compounds have been packed for shipping and storage in one mass in suitable containers, such as sugar or salt barrels, but this has been found unsatisfactory because the oil gradually settles to thebottom of the mass, with the result that the lowermost layer becomes excessive ly moist or sog and the oil leaks from the barrel and soils the floor, while the up- .per layers are left dry and unservioeable,-

struction of the disks,

entailing considerable waste.

Theobject of my invention is the rovision of a simple and inexpensive met 0d of packin and storing such sweeping compounds w ich shall overcome these objec- Il tions and maintain-a practically uniform distribution of the'oil throughout the contents of the package, thus keepin all. portions of the mass in a usefulco ition and avoiding waste. Y 40 Theaccom anying drawin shows a form ofpackage t at may be emp oyed in carrying out my improved method a vertical section of the pac age and'2 a horizontal section thereof.

Instead of packin the sweeping compound in a single un ivided mass in a rrel, or other container, the same is disposed therein in relatively shallow, superposed units, layers or divisions, each isolated from adj aoe'nt layers, whereby any settling of the oil-ingredient of theoompound is confined to the depth of each layer or division, effectively preventing the oil of the entire mass from settling to the bottom of the Fig. 1 being I 1923. Serial No. 642,773.

layer, the material is tamped and a removable diskor division plate ,11 is placed upa on it. This disk should be impervious to oil, and may consist for example, of card board treated with shellac. Another batch of the compound is then deposited upon said disk and tamped to form the second layer, and a second separating disk 11 placed upon it, and so on until the barrel is filled, when it is closed by the usual head or cover 12., As shown, the oil-impervious disks are substantially co-extensive with the transverse area of the barrel or other receptacle.

Preferably, the several disks are dished r sides, as shown,

or concaved on their up this being usually done y emplofiyin disks originally flat and out to snugly t e'barrel, and depressing their central portions below their marginal pgrtions in the act of tamping the layers. y this dished conif any settlement of the oil should occur, it will gather on their depressed central portions rather than on their margins, thus rendering the oil less liable to leak over the edges of the disks onto the layers beneath. v

The barrel is preferab lined with socalled glasine paper or ot er material impervious to'oil.

As the disks engage the barrelonly fric- ,tionally, they can be readily. removed one after another as the com ound is consumed.

By this method of pae ing sweeping com\ pounds in separated shallowlayers or divisions, the oil in the whole mass cannot settle to the bottom :of. the container, and the oil in each layer or division can settle no farther than the bottom of that particular' layer. As the layers are comparatively shallow, there is not enou h 011 in anyone of them to render the layer too wet at the bottom and too at the top,

even if more or less settlement of the Oll T if partly settled, will be re-mixed and redistributed, by the act of removing batches or portions of the layer, either with the hand or a suitable implement.

Excessive moistening or undue dr ing of any part of the barrel-contents is t '11s 0bviated, the entire contents can be utilized wlthout waste, and leakage of 011 at the bottom of the barrel and soiling of the floor are prevented.

While affording these important advanta es; the use of this packing method invo ves no material increase in the cost of the package.

tensive with the transverse area of the resettling of the oil in each ceptacle whereb ed to the depth thereof and layer is eonfin soaking of the lower layers and drying out of the upper layers is firevented.

J GEO GE W. SMITH. 

